If you are an Acoustic Guitar player... get the Acoustic Fly Rig.
If you are a Bass Player... get the Bass Fly Rig.
Electric Guitar players have a little more thinking to do... Get the Plexi sound on the Fly Rig 5 or the OMG overdrive on the Richie Kotzen signature model, RK5.
It's really that easy.

The heart is the SansAmp, an amazing tool for quickly getting useful tones from crisp clean to drippy overdriven amp sounds. The tone controls are what you think they should do. You think it and you turn the knob you expect will do the job... done!

Each version is tuned to how you think it should work. Compressor (Acoustic and Bass Fly Rigs) is so easy to use. One knob for the amount of compression, another for tone, and another for level. Turn each one and you hear it's effect... it's not subtle and that is great for getting it right. It's the same way with the Plexi and OMG overdrives with controls so easy to achieve the sound you want. Great sounding Reverbs on the guitar versions. Sweet chorus effect on the Bass and Acoustic Fly Rigs to thicken your sound or go extreme. Great sounding analog delay for slap-back to dreamy long and "drift" control to give those repeats some character.

There is no gimmick to the Fly Rigs. It's pro-sounds that Tech 21 is famous for in a format which is convenient and easy to use.

Go for it.

We were hammered with requests for a bass version of the
Fly Rig 5 since the day it was introduced. How could we not answer the call? We went a little crazy and stuffed everything
we could into the Bass Fly Rig, except the kitchen sink,
Rhode Island and a submarine.

SansAmp, of course, as its center point, with our unique Character control that sweeps through the most storied vintage and modern tones. Three-band active EQ provides professional grade tweakability for any situation. For dirt and grind, Drive adds gain and overdrive. You can also add distortion by engaging the Pre-Boost. And then there’s Fuzz in the OCTAFILTER section. Each method achieves a different variety of tonal madness. You can even use all three at the same time, but be sure to hold onto your shorts.

OCTAFILTER brings an entire re-invented pallette of expression with a crazy amount of possibilities, from Minimoog®-style synth to funky town. The controls interact so that you can get dynamically-filtered clean, fuzz, and octave, as well as octave and fuzz together. When Q is at minimum, Range becomes a high-cut tone filter for different versions of clean, fuzz, octave, and octave and fuzz together. You can then blend any of these combinations with your direct signal via the Mix control. But wait, there’s more. By bringing in some COMP, you can get infinite sustain like a keyboard bass. Whew.

COMP, for compression, utilizes old school, all-analog, FET-based technology, which is inherently warmer, more transparent and musical.

Switchable Pre/Post Boost. Pre-Boost mode interacts with the SansAmp section to beef up drive and distortion. Post-Boost mode increases the overall volume to punch up fills and solos.